2018(Gyo-Ke)10157 (January 30, 2020) “LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT UTILIZING SAME” Case
Novelty, Inventive
(Conclusion)
Novelty, Inventive step is NOT found.
Selected invention
The patentability was denied because there was no “significant unique effect”.
(This is an unusual decision in recent years.)
<Writer: Hideki Takaishi (Attorney-at-law licensed in Japan and California)>
https://www.courts.go.jp/ip/eng/assets/ip/eng/chizai_en/chizai_en-pdf-2689.pdf
